Other than those 5 games as a rookie he's played and started every game for 3 consecutive seasons. That's pretty impressive. I think there needs to be more analysis on time lost due to injury. I assume that a player makes the same amount of $$$ regardless of whether they are injured or not. I wonder how much derozan made/game or per minute compared to other players. Theoretically, if Demar could have had a cheaper/minute played or per/game played rate than another SG who has a smaller salary but missed games due to injury. I also think that there needs to be more advanced stats as a factor of total salary. Anyway, I had been planning to start doing the background to do an article on Derozan trying to compare production & salary on a per game and/or per minute basis, but don't have the time.

If you factor in the lost production of injuries, it makes demar more valuable, IMO, or at least SHOULD make him more valuable.

Anyway more food for thought.

Maybe I'm missing something, but can't you just look at his WS instead of WS/48 if you wanted to take total minutes into account? Something simple like annual salary divided by total win shares would work, no?

EDIT: Although... like somebody else pointed out, that only holds if the player is a net positive when they're on the court. DeRozan's WS/48 is below .100 (average player) and his on/off court numbers are inconclusive (his seasonal numbers fluctuate wildly over his career).

To be fair, a bunch of the posts are objectively useless and a lot of them are reading comprehension fails and repetitions of already made points that get ignored/misinterpreted by those making the aforementioned reading comprehension fails.

To be fair, a bunch of the posts are objectively useless and a lot of them are reading comprehension fails and repetitions of already made points that get ignored/misinterpreted by those making the aforementioned reading comprehension fails.

LOL you *pretty much* described a forum based website.

I say "pretty much" because all the posts are objectively useless... because we aren't DeRozan, Uriji or the coaching staff.

hahaha, fair enough, but I think you know what I mean. Assuming the objective is to have rational and intelligent conversation about the Raptors, some posts are much more useless than others. Especially the last seven, including this one, haha